The Journal of Negro History
Chapter 234 : M. Vinery, colored.Darlington--B. F. Whittemore, white; Isaac Brockenton, Jordan Lang,

M. Vinery, colored.

Darlington--B. F. Whittemore, white; Isaac Brockenton, Jordan Lang, Richard Humbird, colored.

Edgefield--Frank Arnim, white; R. B. Elliott, Prince R. Rivers, John Bonum, David Harris, John Wooley, colored.

Fairfield--James M. Rutland, white; H. D. Edwards, Henry Jacob, colored.

Georgetown--Henry W. Webb, white; F. F. Miller, Joseph H. Rainey, colored.

Greenville--James M. Allen, J. M. Runion, white; Wilson Cook, W. B.

Johnson, colored.

Horry--Henry Jones, A. R. Thompson, colored.

Kershaw--J. K. Jillson, S. G. W. Dill, white; John A. Chestnut, colored.

Lancaster--Albert Clinton, Charles Jones, colored.

Lexington--Lemanuel Boozer, Simeon Corley, white.

Laurens--Joseph Crews, Y. J. P. Owens, white; Harry McDaniels, Nelson Davis, colored.

Marion--W. S. Collins, white; J. W. Johnson, H. E. Hayne, B. A.

Thompson, colored.

Marlboro--Calvin Stubbs, George Jackson, colored.

Newberry--B. O. Duncan, white; James Henderson, Lee Nance, colored.

Orangeburg--E. W. M. Mackey, white; E. J. Cain, W. J. McKinlay, T. K.

Sasportas, B. F. Randolph, colored.

Pickens--M. Mauldin, Alexander Bryce, L. B. Johnson, white.

Richland--Thomas J. Robertson, white; W. B. Nash, S. B. Thompson, C.

M. Wilder, colored.

Spartanburg--J. P. F. Camp, J. S. Gentry, white; Rice Foster, Coy Wingo, colored.

Sumter--T. J. Coghlan, F. J. Moses, Jr., white; W. E. Johnson, Samuel Lee, colored.

Union--J. H. Goss, white; Abram Dogan, Samuel Nuckles, colored.

Williamsburg--William Darrington, white; C. M. Olsen, S. A. Swails, colored.

York--J. L. Neagle, William E. Rose, white; J. W. Mead, J. H. White, colored.

Three of the delegates elected failed to attend,--F. A. Sawyer, white, Charleston; John K. Terry, white, Colleton; George D. Medis, colored, Edgefield.

Of the 124 delegates elected, forty-eight were white and seventy-six colored. The white men cla.s.sed as Republicans were about equally divided as natives or newcomers--in the vernacular of the times, "scalawags" or "carpetbaggers."

The following table gives the previous residence of the delegates:

Whites Negroes

South Carolina 23 South Carolina 59 North Carolina 3 Pennsylvania 2 Georgia 1 Michigan 1 Ma.s.sachusetts 7 Georgia 1 Connecticut 1 Tennessee 1 Rhode Island 1 Ohio 1 New York 1 North Carolina 1 Other Northern States 5 Virginia 1 England 2 Ma.s.sachusetts 2 Ireland 1 Dutch Guiana 1 Prussia 1 Unknown 6 Denmark 1 --- Unknown 1 76 --- 48

SENATORS OF SOUTH CAROLINA--RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD[18]

*[19]---- Barber Fairfield Co.

---- Bird Fairfield Co.

R. H. Cain Charleston Co.

*Lawrence Cain Edgefield Co.

*Rev. H. Cardozo Kershaw Co.

F. A. Clinton Lancaster Co.

*S. E. Gaillard Charleston Co.

Samuel Green Beaufort Co. formerly of H. of Rep.

*C. D. Hayne Aiken Co.

H. E. Hayne Marion Co.

*W. R. Jervey Charleston Co.

*Rev. W. E. Johnson Sumter Co.

*W. H. Jones Georgetown Co.

*---- Jamison Orangeburg Co.

*John Lee Chester Co.

H. J. Maxwell Marlboro Co.

*W. F. Myers Colleton Co.

W. Beverley Nash Richland Co.

J. H. Rainey Georgetown Co.

Rev. B. F. Randolph Orangeburg Co.

*Robert Smalls Beaufort Co.

S. A. Swails Williamsburg Co.

*J. H. White York Co.

Rev. B. H. Williams Georgetown Co.

Lucius Wimbush Chester Co.

*Thomas E. Miller Beaufort Co.

R. E. Wall Kershaw Co.

MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF SOUTH CAROLINA DURING RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD[20]

*---- Bas...o...b.. Beaufort Co.

S. J. Bampfield Beaufort Co.

B. A. Bosemon Charleston Co.

Joseph D. Boston Newberry Co.

*J. A. Bowley Georgetown Co.

Benjamin Byas Berkley Co.

E. J. Cain Berkley Co.

*J. E. Clyde Charleston Co.

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